Intel Core i7-6500U vs AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D

Compare Intel 6th Generation Core i7 2 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 1793.00
$ 386.14
$ 1406.86 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1306 points
10011 points
666% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2566 points
11884 points
363% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

974 points
9349 points
859% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

934 points
9142 points
878% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

24.12 points
263.24 points
991% significantly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
8
300% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
16
300% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.5 GHz
4.20 GHz
68% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.1 GHz
5 GHz
61% significantly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W
700% significantly lower TDP
120 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

870th of 1,089
88th of 1,089

Family

The product line

6th Generation Core i7
Ryzen 7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 August
2023 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2133
DDR5

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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Core i7-6500U vs Ryzen 7 7800X3D specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 7800X3D is faster than the Core i7-6500U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-6500U in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 7 7800X3D has significantly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Core i7-6500U that has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-6500U. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 7800X3D has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-6500U. Also, the Ryzen 7 7800X3D has a significantly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-6500U CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 7 7800X3D CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i7-6500U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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